[bit.listserv.christia] JEK: why postings are sometimes returned

JEK@NIHCU (James Kiefer) (02/10/90)

David Hale asks: "Why is my mail sent back sometimes?"

If you send the message SET REPRO CHRISTIA (or possibly just SET
REPRO -- I haven't done it for a while; try both) to
LISTSERV@FINHUTC you will always get a copy of your mail when
CHRISTIA distributes it to the membership at large. Some people like
this -- it assures them that their mail is in fact being distributed
to the list.

If you are getting some letters back independently of REPRO, it is
because someone on the list cancelled his account without cancelling
his CHRISTIA subscription. As a result, when you mail something to
CHRISTIA, an attempt is made to send him a copy, and you get a note
saying that he is no longer there, and here is your letter.
Eventually this stops, but what kind person or computer program
takes care of it, I have no idea.

 Yours,
 James Kiefer